Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life

With a Collection of the Documents and Texts up to Vasari and an Appendix of Sources on the Arena Chapel
Life : with a collection of the documents and texts up to Vasari and an appendix of sources on the Arena Chapel
ISBN: 978-3-205-21696-4
Verlag: Böhlau

Buch, Deutsch, Englisch, Latin, Band Band 001, 426 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1312 g

Reihe: Giotto the Painter

Giotto (1334) is the first European artist about whom it is possible to write following the schema of “life and work”. The situation of the sources, however, is complicated: On Giotto’s life, there are – on the one hand – biographical accounts from the mid-fourteenth century onwards that responded to various ideological requirements (patriotism, humanism, Renaissance ideology, cult of the artist); on the other, there is extensive documentary material from Giotto’s lifetime, which seems to reflect less the biography of an artist than that of a bourgeois businessman resolutely climbing the social ladder. The present volume focuses on this second aspect of the Giotto figure’s double life relating it to the form of existence of the pre-modern artist.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwarz, Michael Viktor

Theis, Pia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Über Autor(innen)

Theis, Pia
Pia Theis arbeitet für Kunst- und Kultureinrichtungen in Deutschland und Österreich. Sie ist Autorin eines Standardwerks zur Österreichischen Ludwig-Stiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft und zu Giottos Leben, Werk und Wirkungsgeschichte.